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Audiences may have been sad to lose Jason Robards, who died on Dec. 26 at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. But on Broadway yesterday afternoon at a memorial service at the Broadhurst Theater to honor Mr. Robards, the stage and film star, it...

February 23, 2001, Friday

When an actor of Jason Robards's stature dies, it is almost as though more than one death were taking place. The characters he played over the years, especially the ones written by Eugene O'Neill, seem to die a little too. At least three O'Neill...

December 28, 2000, Thursday

Jason Robards, who reclaimed the legacy of Eugene O'Neill and became one of the most powerful and important actors on the American stage and screen, died yesterday at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut. He was 78. Mr. Robards, who lived in...

December 27, 2000, Wednesday

That's some funny job all those presidential candidates are scampering after. The ultimate winner will get to face down world leaders and recalcitrant Congressmen and to pose every November with a large turkey (the gobble-gobble kind). Once a year...

The great uh-oh moment in Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Magnolia'' occurs about two-thirds of the way through this artfully orchestrated symphony of L.A. stories. A song bursts out: it is heard first from one character, then from another, until all the...

President Clinton paid tribute tonight to the youngest recipient of a Kennedy Center honor as well as one of the oldest at a White House reception before a gala performance at the center. Introducing the artists in the East Room, the president...

IT must be harder than hitting a double bank shot for an actor to play a moment in which his character is at once so repellent yet so lovable that the audience wants both to turn away and to offer the character a great big hug (or if not a hug, then...